ARMENIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE INITIATED A CASE ON THE FACT OF GETTING BIG SIZE BRIBE AND ILLEGAL ABSOLUTION OF A PERSON BY CRIME INVESTIGATOR OF THE POLICE

Arminfo
2007-04-26 13:16:00

The department on control over illegal conducting of investigation
of the Armenian Prosecutor General’s office initiated a case on the
fact of getting big size bribe and illegal absolution of a person by
crime investigator of the police

As press-secretary of Prosecutor General, Sona Tryzyan, told Arminfo
correspondent last year an Armenian citizen Armen Amamchayn applied
to the police that in 2003 V.Melkonyan took 6.020 dollars from him
by means of swindle. Crime investigator of the Nor-Nork district
of the Yerevan police Aram Chugulyan initiated a case on the fact,
on March 10 2006 according to the article No 178, part 2 of RA Crime
Code. But in the course of investigation Chugulyan himself got 4.500
dollars bribe from V.Melkonyan so that to change the content of some
documents of the case. On 10 October he dismissed the case motivating
that as "for time limitation". Thus, he illegally exempted V.Melkonyan.

On the basis of the materials a case on several articles of the
Criminal Code was initiated on 19 April of the current year and passed
to the Yerevan city prosecutor’s office.